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A brief history of pension dashboards! Thx. to Richard Smith
Thanks to Richard Smith for this! Richard’s views are not quite mine (I’m not a compulsionista or a single dashboard man!). Nevertheless this info graphic is really helpful as it reminds us of the difficulty the Government has in keeping … Continue reading
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Tagged ABI, Dashboard, Pension Dashboard, pensions, Richard Smith, workplace
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Self-sufficiency for pensions.
Whether you are in charge of the PPF , one of the 13 Carillion defined benefit schemes, or any one of the thousand or so “distressed” pension schemes that might no have a sponsor able to bale it out;-the term … Continue reading
Posted in CDC, pensions
Tagged CDC, Company Pension, DB, pensions, Pot, Wage for life, workplace
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Whose department is workplace pensions?
At 11am on Tuesday 18th April I shook hands with Richard Harrington, our Pensions Minister and began a meeting that discussed how small businesses could in future measure how effectively their workplace pensions were working. The meeting was interrupted by … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, DWP, Harrington, pension, pensions, workplace, workplace Pensions
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DB pension heading for the PPF? – Read this!
Here are some things you didn’t know about the Pension Protection Fund (PPF). If you are in a pension scheme heading in that direction you should read this! While most people think it would be an unmitigated disaster to see … Continue reading
Posted in de-risking, pensions, workplace pensions
Tagged BHS, BSPS, ppf, tata, TPR, workplace
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Financial advice, master or menace?
Which came first, the need or the greed? Old Mutual Wealth (a company that owns one of Britain’s largest financial advice networks and is build a tied network) has commissioned a survey that tells us 90% of those between 30 … Continue reading
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Tagged Collaboration, competition, dc, FCA, financial advice, Master Menace, Menace, Old Mutual, Paul Feeney, pensions, regulation, Retirement, workplace
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Measure 4 Measure (why we rate things)
A very curious article appeared on the NOW blog yesterday, I took exception to it and wrote to NOW to tell them. You can read the article here. It’s author, the excellent Martin Olive had clearly become frustrated with “rating … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, NOW, pensionns, workplace, workplace Pensions
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How safe is your workplace pension?
The opportunity to improve pension fund charging. Let us pause for a moment and consider what we are buying into when we set up a workplace pension for our staff. On the face of it, nobody enrolled into a workplace … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, alternatives, AMC, annual management charge, auto enrolment, charges, DWP, Employment, Financial services, Fraud, Fund Manager, MAF, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension fund, pensions, workplace
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It’s only human nature after all!
It’s natural for us to crave money but we are not natural money saving experts. Debate has raged on this blog and on the Pension Play Pen group pages as to whether Pensions Wise is doomed along with the … Continue reading
How Payroll can avoid offering pension advice (in 5 easy lessons)!
The blog in a nutshell This is a long risk-warning to payroll bureau and their software suppliers who may be considering providing advice to employers by reducing the choice of pension options to one – a default. If you don’t … Continue reading
“what should tell the staff?” Pension PlayPen Lunch today!
Every first business Monday of the month, the Pension Play Pen Linked In group meet in the Partners Room of the Counting House in Cornhill to discuss pressing issues of the day. True to form, we meet today (Monday … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, Business, Business and Economy, corporate governance, Employment, financial education, Financial services, Guidance, Mark Scantlebury, pension, Pension Freedoms, Pension new, pension playpen, Pension Wise, pensions, Politics, Retirement, Steve Webb, workplace
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